11x11" Fine Art Lithographic Print: Coastal Southern California

Special edition, fine art series, print by Mustard Beetle owner, Elizabeth Jean Younce

This item is an Original Hand-Pulled Lithograph titled "Coastal Southern California" featuring: fig.1 Orthione griffenis, [invasive] ectoparasitic isopod • fig.2 Upogebia pugettensis, [native] blue mud shrimp • fig.3 Calidris alpina, [wintering] dunlin • fig.4 Carcinus maenas, [invasive] European green crab • fig.5 Urosalpinx cinerea, [invasive] Atlantic oyster drill • fig.6 Ostrea lurida, [native] Olympia oyster

The green crab is a globally-damaging invasive species and in Southern California in particular it not only decreases native crab populations, increases invasive whelk populations such as the Atlantic oyster drill, increases populations in other invasive clams, but also reduces food abundance for wintering shore birds such as the dunlin. Dunlin often eat native blue mud shrimp but they too are being negatively impacted by an invasive parasite. Population increases of the invasive Atlantic oyster drill have contributed correlated with decreases of the native Olympia oyster.

Created for the Marine Bioinvasions 2023 conference in Annapolis, MD for the trade portfolio and exhibition, Altered Environments. This portfolio is co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and Pyramid Atlantic.

✸ Handprinted on a printing press with archival inks on Rives BFK Off-White 280gsm (100% Cotton Rag, 255 gsm, Acid Free)
✸ Lithography & Serigraphy (7-layers)
✸ 11x11" (with white borders) • 2022
✸ Signed, limited edition of 15 (never to be printed again)
✸ Ships flat and plastic free